a What evidence is there that the writer is not... - SS1 English Comprehension Passage : Vocabulary Development Question

(a) What evidence is there that the writer is not a young person?

(b) For what two things was David Akide admired by others in the primary school?

(d) What did the writer assume had been the fate of David after leaving the primary school?

(e) What is established by the fact that David Akide was being interviewed by a panel of reporters on the nation’s network programme?

(f) Why was the writer amazed?

(g) … while I was watching a 9 o ‘clock television network programme … (i) What is the grammatical name given to this expression as it is used in the passage? (ii) What is its function?

(h) … zoomed into and through the university… (i) What figure of speech is used in this expression? (ii) What does it mean?

(i) For each of the following words, find another word or phrase which means the same and which can replace it as it is used in the passage: i. cheerfully; ii. sociable; iii. imagined; iv. vocation v. achievement

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a. Around the time he was writing, he had been out of primary school for thirty-eight years.

b. i. He was the only pupil who wrote with his left hand. ii. He endured all the jokes from his mates cheerfully.

c. He failed the secondary school admission examination.

d.He thought David might have ended up with a low-grade vocational job.

e. David’s intellectual capabilities had improved significantly later in his life and this enabled him to achieve academic success.

f. He was amazed because David who was once academically weak was able to further his education to become a renowned surgeon.

g. i. Adverbial Clause (of Time) ii. It is modifying the verb, ‘saw’.

h. i. Metaphor (It could also be onomatopoeia within another context) ii. Entered and graduated from university with amazing speed.

i. i. good-naturedly (playfully) ii. outgoing (a mixer) iii. thought iv. job v. accomplishment

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